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New Rhetoric Meets New Dialectics: A Methodological Interaction on Music and Computational Creativity Public Deposited
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My thesis considers the use of argumentation in two distinct traditions: rhetoric and dialectics. I apply Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric and Douglas Walton's New Dialectics in a rhetorical analysis of David Cope's Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style. The book contains an exchange between composer David Cope, and cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, about the implications resulting from Cope's compositional computer program: Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI). I apply Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's concept of arguments of association and disassociation to analyze and categorize Cope and Hofstadter's arguments regarding the concepts of creativity, style, and imitation. I use Walton's concept of types of dialogue, and chains of presumptive reasoning to describe the internal structure of each argument and the overall contextual influence of the exchange. Ultimately, I address how these two frameworks interact and synthesize a new, unique model of argumentation.
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- 2012
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- 2020-05-27
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